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Includes: The contests are the same as the regular issue however the cover is a one-of-a-kind made by an artist friend of Smartish Pace. The covers are made of everything from oil paint to collage. Watch the making of the covers. Trust us, you will love it; no two covers are the same!

The Two Pyrenees

Gerald Stern

There is no shame in singing together, the firstNeanderthals did it in both Pyrenees, althoughthe theory that they were acting like frogs might beas wrong as right—I prefer it wolvesif such their throats were they could howl that wayfor there is no proof that frogs were ever connected to moonshine—moonlight—but wolves they always were—they are—and as for those thickset people I love so much I know they had to sing to the moon—I sing myself behind my fronds, my porch, my metal table, something to go with the sighing of the coconuts in love with the bleeding hearts and bar Scotch in a cardboard cup to keep the cold out for flowing water is everywhere to keep the plants from freezingand I am doing it for you, abominable friends.

Gerald Stern is the author of eighteen poetry collections including This Time (1999), which won the National Book Award, Save the Last Dance (2008) and Early Collected: Poems From 1965-1992 (2010), all three from W.W. Norton. A collection of personal essays, What I Can’t Bear Losing: Notes From a Life (Trinity University), was published in 2009. He was the ﬁrst Poet Laureate of New Jersey, serving from 2000 to 2002, and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. [bio updated 2011]